victory yet here also they found themselves unequal to the task. The Marquis of Moravia, fon to the King of Bohemia, was the first who renewed the battle; but being wounded in three places, his ftandard beaten to the ground, and his men flain in heaps around him, he with difficulty turned his horfe and rode out of the field, having caft away his armour that he might not be known. The French King in perfon, with fome Select troops, now made the laft effay to turn the fortune of the day; but with fuch ill fuccefs, that he was obliged to quit the field with only fixty perfons in his company; yet not before he had given convincing proofs of his valour: he was wounded both in the neck and thigh, and had one horse killed under him; he was difmounted alfo from a fecond, and had undoubtedly been flain or taken prifoner, if Lord John of Hainault, his brother-in-law, had not a third time remounted him, and then taking hold of his horfe's bridle, almost by force compelled him to leave the battle. The royal fstandard of France was beaten to the ground, the ftandard-bearer being killed in fight of the King; and whilst both nations warmly contended for it, a French Knight difmounted from his horse, ripped it from its fhaft with his fword, and wrapping it in folds about his body, rode out of the field. From this time the French made little or no oppofition; and night coming on, it gave an opportunity to more than half their army to escape this they did in fuch small parties, as plainly fhewed that their defeat was decifive and complete. The Prince of Wales, unwilling to hazard fo glorious a victory by breaking his ranks, thought it not prudent to pursue them he wifely confidered that the numbes which had escaped were still fuperior to his own forces; and that being augmented by by those troops which were marching from different quarters with all expedition to join the French army before the battle, they might rally and return to the charge. The King his father approved of his conduct in this respect, and ordered his army to pafs the night on the field of battle. It is almost incredible with how little lofs this memorable victory was obtained: neither the French or English hiftorians take notice of more than three Knights and one 'Squire killed in the battle on the fide of the English; and it is evident, from the history of the baronage of England, that not one of the Nobility fell that day, though most of them, as appears from the fame authority, accompanied the King in this expedition. On the part of the French their lofs was irreparable; not fo much from the number of troops flain, though at leaft thirty thoufand lay dead on the field of battle, as from the great flaughter of their prime Nobility and Knights. There F 3 fell fell that day, befides the Kings of Bohemia and Majorca, the Duke of Lorrain nephew to the French King, Humbert Duke of Vienne, and Lewis Earl of Flanders, all fovereign Princes. Charles Count d'Alençon, King Philip's brother, the Counts de Blois, Vaudemont, Harcourt, Aumale, St. Paul, and Sancerre, with many others of the French Nobility; Grimaldi and Doria the Genoefe Commanders, and nine German Noblemen of distinction belonging to the King of Bohemia's retinue, were numbered among the flain. These were accompanied in their deaths by twenty-four Bannerets, twelve hundred Knights, fifteen hundred men at arms, and four thousand 'Squires on horseback. The King of Bohemia, who fhared in this catastrophe, was the fon of Henry of Luxemburgh, late Emperor of Germany; he was a foldier of great reputation and experience, but almoft blind through age, and the lofs of one of his eyes in the Italian wars, 1 wars. Before the engagement, being told the former part of his prediction was nearly but, |